Comment & Opinion

NEW YORK (TNS) — Last week, I found myself in a situation that could soon be familiar to a lot more Americans: sliding into a CT scanner with a smatte...

California is using federal Medicaid funds for Native American shamans to treat drug and alcohol addiction with drum circles, spiritual dances and her...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There are two processes that we cannot escape: aging and math. This applies not only to human beings but also to large government soc...

Pennsylvania has a problem. Our outdated tax system is costing working people billions of dollars. They are watching their neighborhood schools close,...

Soccer fans stranded in the New Jersey marshes wasn’t the image the World Cup organizers were going for, but it’s their own fault that’s what they got...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — New York's Comrade Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is ready to seize the means of production, starting with the landlords. As always with co...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is set for signature on Friday, and Donald Trump is already congratulating himself on being the...

Government has never been known as a model of efficiency. Yet a new report from the Government Accountability Office should make even the most hardene...

After more than four years of living independently, I was forced back into my childhood bedroom because the capstone of my teaching degree — student t...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Over Memorial Day weekend, a few of my friends’ sons, 14 and 15 years old, set off for a day of fun carrying some cash, a PRT Conne...

Starbucks is getting a “venti” sized handout from the state of Tennessee to build a new corporate office in Nashville. The company will receive $30 mi...

At a gas station off Interstate 70, I watch as a cousin of mine in Bentleyville drops a twenty into a Pace-O-Matic console. This slightly bedraggled P...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Reports of a Republican congressional revolt — like Mark Twain once famously said of a false newspaper report of his death — are gr...

It has become increasingly hard to use the word integrity when describing college athletics, and much of that is the NCAA's own doing. Unimaginably, t...

The most encouraging redistricting news of the year came from two states that did nothing. Illinois lawmakers adjourned without drawing new congressio...

Across northeast Pennsylvania, people are deeply concerned about the rapid push for large-scale data center development in our communities. I share th...

I have watched other people with their pets and their shared lives seem simple compared to mine! I suppose it’s not really true, because when you shar...

Two decades after the first casino opened in Pennsylvania — paving the way for many older residents to get hooked on slot machines — gambling interest...

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted by a 215-208 margin, with four Republicans joining in the majority, to approve a war powers “concur...

BOSTON (TNS) — President Trump’s decision to leave a long, aggressive interview with the slanted, outdated “Meet the Press” show drew the usual outrag...